Ornamentation



June 5, 1934. L. STALDER 1,961,575

ORNAMENTATION Original Filed Nov. 9; 1929 la "ans: /4 \'P4 /M//V6 coar- 719 6 g ENVENZOR Patented June 5, 1934 PATENT OFFICE 1,961,575 ORNAMENTATION Lydia Stalder, New York, N. Y.

Application November 9, 1929, Serial No. 405,944 Renewed October 3, 1933 6 Claims. (CI. 41-33) My invention relates to ornamentation, and more particularly to a novel and useful process of ornamenting objects in simulation of inlaid work.

The accompanying drawing referred to herein and constituting a part hereof, diagrammati? cally illustrates the present preferred embodiment of the invention and serves to explain the principles of the invention and the manner in which it is carried out.

Of the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan diagrammatically showing the several steps of the process according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig 3 is a diagrammatic cross section through an object which has been decorated by the application of a film such as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The present invention provides a novel process for the ornamentation of various objects and surfaces in simulation of inlaid work, and provides a process whereby very artistic inlaid eflects can be easily obtained by relatively un 25 skilled labor. The present invention provides a process which is simple, easily carried out and is readily adapted for commercial use in the ornamentation of furniture, and many other objects.

According to the present preferred embodiment of the invention, 1 provide relatively large sheets of a good grade of paper, coated on one side with a thin layer of gum or other readily water-soluble film-forming material, and I evenly coat these sheets, on their gummed side, with a relatively thin layer of thin, clear, flexible, stripping lacquer. When evenly coated, the lacquer is dried and preferably produces a film only two or three-thousandths of an inch in thickness which conforms to the surface of the object to be decorated. These lacquer-coated sheets may be prepared, in advance, in large quantities.

For facilitating the decoration of these films, enabling them to be produced by relatively unskilled workmen, at the same time. insuring the accurate reproduction of the desired designs, an outline of the design to be reproduced is printed on the dried lacquer films, using an opaque ink of any suitable color and this outline preferably comprises narrow lines separating the differently colored portions of the design from each other. Very fine lines of the design may, however, be produced in this manner and at the 55 same time. For reproducing the grain of wood,

the fine lines representing the dark grain of the wood, may be applied in this manner, and are preferably printed with black, or other dark opaque ink. This printing operation maybecarried out in any desired manner consistent with the production of high quality impressions, but is preferably carried out on a flat-bed, press, using line etchings and a dark, opaque ink to reproduce the outlines of the design.

After the opaque printed outlines have thoroughly dried, the space between the outlines is filled in with colored lacquers. This is preferably carried out by hand, by filling in the outlines with lacquer carried by a fine brush, and the area to which the colored lacquer is applied need not be accurately controlled but should be sufliciently large to cover the space within the outline and to lap slightly over onto the printed outline. The printed outline thus avoids the necessity for exact work and greatly increases the rate of production. When all the outlines have been filled-in, as described, and the colored lacquer has dried, the film is substantially integral, and the narrow lines of ink are'not sufiiciently wide to permit the colored lacquer to separate from the film.

After filling-in the outlines of the design with colored lacquer, the large sheets are preferably cut into pieces of convenient size, and are immersed in water until the thin decorated lacquer films detach themselves from the gummed surface of the paper. The detached films are laid on a clean, slightly absorbent surface, such as a' white cardboard, and dry without substantial curling, and are ready to be applied to the object to be decorated.

In applying the films to the surface to be dec-' orated, the surface is preferably provided with a thin coating of lacquer, which may be colored or not, as desired, and this surface is rendered slightly adhesive by coating it with a thin layer of a dilute solution of gum arabic, or by treating the surface with a solvent for the lacquer with which it is coated. In this adhesive condition, the decorated side of the lacquer film is firmly pressed against the surface to be decorated, causing the decorated film to adhere to the surface, after which the film and the surface is given one or more thin coats of lacquer to protect the film, and to coalesce the film with the lacquered surface of the object decorated, thereby obscuring the edges of the thin decorated film, enhancing the appearance of the object and increasing the inlaid efiect.

Referring now to the diagrammatic drawing,

the base 10, preferably of slightly absorbent paper, is provided with a thin coating of gum 11, on which is formed the thin uniform layer of clear, flexible lacquer 12. This lacquer coated base is then printed with opaque ink 13, to provide it with the outline of the design to be reproduced, and in this condition may be com pleted by filling-in the spaces between the outlines wtih colored lacquer 14. After application of the film 12 to the object to be decorated, the object and film may be coated with a finish coat, such as lacquer, which will coalesce the coats and film on the object.

Figure l of the drawing, shows the several steps of the process, from the uncoated base 10, at the right of the figure, to the fully completed film at the left of the figure.

The invention in its broader aspects is not limited to the steps or compositions shown or described, but departures may be made therefrom within the scope of the accompanying claims without departing from the principles of the invention and without sacrificing its chief advantages.

What I claim is:

1. The process of ornamenting in simulation of inlaid work, which includes coating a base provided with a water-soluble coating to form a thin film of clear lacquer, decorating said film, removing said decorated film from the base, adhesively securing said film to an object having a lacquered surface with the decorated side of the film adjacent the lacquered surface, and coalescing said film with said lacquered surface.

2. The process of ornamenting in simulation of inlaid work, which includes coating a base to form a thin film of clear lacquer, forming an opaque outline of a decorative design on said film, filling-in the outline of said design with colored film forming material and applying said decorated film to an object to be decorated with the decorated side of the film adjacent the object.

3. The process of ornamenting in simulation of inlaid work, which includes coating a base to form a thin film of clear, flexible lacquer, forming an opaque outline of a decorative design on said film, filling-in the outline of said design with colored lacquer, removing said decorated film from its base and applying it to an object to be decorated, and coating the film and object with lacquer to coalesce at least the edges of the film.

4. lhe process of ornamenting in simulation of inlaid work, which includes coating 2. base to form a thin film of clear lacquer, printing an opaque outline of a decorative design on said film, filling-in the outline of said design with colored lacquer, removing said film from its base, applying it to the lacquered surface of an object to be decorated. and coalescing the film with the lacquered surface of the object.

5. The process of ornamenting in simulation of inlaid work, which includes coating a base provided with a water-soluble coating to form a thin film of clear, flexible lacquer, printing the 100 outline of a design on said film with opaque ink, filling-in the outline of said design with colored lacquer, removing said decorated film from its base, pressing the decorated side of the film into contact with the lacquered surface of an object 105 to be decorated and coating the film and surface of the object with lacquer to coalesce the film with the lacquered surface.

6. An ornamental film comprising a thin, flexible sheet of soluble lacquer, having deposited 110 thereon colored lacquer in the form of a design and adapted to be applied to an object to be decorated, the sheet of lacquer being sufficiently thin to be partially coalesced by the application of an overlying coating of lacquer.

LYDIA STALDER. 

